Lamentations 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture… 1. The Church of God doth esteem the exercises of religion e most excellent and glorious thing that can be had in this life. (1) They are notable signs of God's favour and presence. (2) There is more true comfort in them than in the whole world besides. 2. The weakening of the rulers is the height of misery upon the rest of the members of that body. 3. That people hath a heavy judgment upon them whose guides are destitute and deprived of necessary courage. 4. They that have the greatest outward privilege do often come the soonest into distress when God punisheth for sin (Amos 6:7). (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. |
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